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Sony Ericsson released small firmware updates for two of its smartphones – Xperia Arc and Xperia Play. It’s not the Android core update — two phones will keep running Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread — rather it will affect Sony Ericsson’s own software that runs on top of Google’s mobile OS. More precisely, once your phones get…
If you’re: a) living or working in the UK; b) love or have nothing against Three or Vodafone; and c) want to buy yourself a new Android smartphone – we suggest you to wait a bit. The reason, you ask? The white version of the Samsung Galaxy S II is coming to Three and Vodafone…
T-Mobile will get its own version of the recently unveiled LG Optimus Net. While we don’t have all the details — like the launch date — we did noticed that pretty much the same device marked P699 (Gelato) got the Bluetooth certification and is now one step closer to the official announcement. If you recall,…
A week ago we told you Vodafone dropped the HTC Evo 3D from its “Coming Soon” pages. That however doesn’t mean the Big Red carrier won’t offer the 3D-enabled smartphone at all — quite the contrary, it only means that the phone is delayed for the time being. Now we have a new tidbit of…
Mobile augmented reality platform Layar is about to be enhanced with a new feature that recognizes real world objects and can show digital content on top of them. Dubbed Layar Vision, it will allow users to hold their smartphone over posters, magazines and newspapers to view and interact with these “digital experiences.” On the other…
InMobi, which in case you don’t know is the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, acquired Sprout, whose HTML5 rich media creative platform helps agencies and brands reduce the complexity of rich media mobile ad creation and distribution. As a result, InMobi will be able to help the mobile advertising industry easily build and distribute…
According to David Drummond, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at Google, there are over 250,000 patents covering the smartphone stuffed in your pocket right now. That sort of bloated figure is due to the ease at which companies can get patents for any vaguely worded document they mail to the United States Patent…
The day has finally come, Clearwire has announced that they’ll switch from WiMAX, the Intel backed 4G standard that no one is supporting, to LTE, which nearly every operator in the world is either in the process of rolling out or has plans to roll out at some point in the future. They didn’t announce…
It’s funny, HTC makes some of the best Android devices on the market, from a specification and build quality perspective, but then they molest Google’s mobile operating system with their Sense overlay because they somehow think that as a hardware maker they understand software better than Google engineers. They then reach out to the community…
In an attempt to spruce up the existing mobile Gmail site, Google has added a few new features for those who don’t have a dedicated app on their handset. While the updates a rather minimal, all are welcomed, as they bring the web app a step closer to that of a native application. Google has…